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Revision: 1.44
Committed: Fri Jan 5 13:34:20 2007 UTC (17 years, 3 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_14
Changes since 1.43: +3 -2 lines
Log Message:
Add note about saidar bugfix, and set a release date.

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1 libstatgrab NEWS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: NEWS,v 1.43 2006/12/01 14:21:16 tdb Exp $
5
6 PLANS: We're now working towards a 1.0 release which is where we plan
7 to stabilise the API. We'll be doing test releases before hand,
8 but as always we'll like to hear about any bugs found in the
9 current release.
10
11 libstatgrab 0.14 (08 January 2007)
12 * Fix memory stats on OpenBSD.
13 * Add colour support to saidar.
14 (Thanks to Angelina Carlton)
15 * Fix CPU stats on Solaris - swap and iowait were incorrectly reported.
16 * Fix kstat related memory leaks on Solaris.
17 (Thanks to Javier Donaire)
18 * Fix network stats on some unusual Solaris setups.
19 * Fix process time_spent on Linux.
20 (Thanks to Fred Barnes)
21 * Make interface up status check the link status as well.
22 (Thanks to Michelangelo Vassallo)
23 * Fix build on NetBSD 3.
24 (Thanks to Wijnand Wiersma)
25 * Rework curses detection code in the configure script.
26 * Fix bug that caused saidar to crash when the window was rapidly resized.
27
28 libstatgrab 0.13 (19 March 2006)
29 * Fix build problems with recent linux kernels.
30 * Make saidar truncate disk/inteface/mount names to fit in display.
31 * Add WIN32 support using MINGW (not widely tested).
32 * Fix network interface up/down status on Solaris.
33 * Add extern "C" to header file to make linking with C++ code easier.
34 * Fix statgrab to cope with filesystem paths containing dots.
35 * Make NFS a legal filesystem type on all platforms.
36 * A few minor build fixes.
37
38 libstatgrab 0.12 (31 July 2005)
39 * More details added to filesystem statistics.
40 (Patches provided by Roman Neuhauser)
41 * Rework Linux partition detection.
42 * Fix compile error in network stats on Linux 2.6.
43 (Patches provided by Scott Lampert)
44 * Change name of duplex value in network interface stats.
45 NOTE: this minor change breaks the API.
46 * Manual pages for saidar, statgrab and the other tools.
47 * Fix minor typo in statgrab usage output.
48 * Support for Solaris 10.
49 * Support for FreeBSD 7.
50
51 libstatgrab 0.11.1 (03 March 2005)
52 * Add NFS to list of supported filesystems.
53 * Fix reporting of network interface duplex settings on Linux.
54 * Fix saidar to support negative FS usage.
55
56 libstatgrab 0.11 (09 November 2004)
57 * Add support for HP-UX 11.11.
58 (Patches provided by Roy Keene)
59 * Minor fixes to statgrab mrtg tools.
60 * Minor fixes to saidar.
61 * Minor code cleanups and fixes to libstatgrab.
62
63 libstatgrab 0.10.3 (24 August 2004)
64
65 * Add -f flag to statgrab to display floating-point numbers multiplied
66 by an integer.
67 * Add -K, -M and -G flags to statgrab to show byte counts in kibibytes,
68 mebibytes or gibibytes.
69 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config use the new flags to scale extremely
70 large or small numbers so that mrtg can handle them.
71 * Make statgrab-make-mrtg-config automatically detect network interface
72 speeds.
73 * Add support for FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT.
74
75 libstatgrab 0.10.2 (27 July 2004)
76
77 * Fix shared library version that when backwards in 0.10.1.
78
79 libstatgrab 0.10.1 (26 July 2004)
80
81 * Use DESTDIR correctly when setting permissions at install time.
82 * Fix disk stats to work with OpenBSD 3.5.
83 * Fix disk stats on NetBSD 2.0 (statvfs instead of statfs).
84 * Fix memory leak in process stats on NetBSD 2.0.
85 * Add vxfs (Veritas filesystem) to list of known filesystems
86 on Solaris.
87 * Add more variables to the pkg-config file to suggest suitable
88 ownership and permissions for binaries using libstatgrab.
89 * Make sure statgrab.h can safely be included twice.
90 * Fix statgrab to display network interface names even if they
91 don't have IO stats (like the loopback interface on Solaris).
92 * Add error reporting function that grabs errno.
93
94 libstatgrab 0.10 (20 May 2004)
95
96 * All function and structure names now follow a standardised
97 naming scheme. This will break compatibility with existing
98 programs. To use pre-0.10 compatibility functions:
99
100 #define SG_ENABLE_DEPRECATED
101 #include <statgrab.h>
102
103 * New process stats function added to provide full details
104 on currently running processes. See sg_get_process_stats
105 for details.
106 * Compare functions provided for process, network, and disk io
107 statistics. These can be used with qsort.
108 * Error reporting functions added. See sg_get_error and
109 associated functions.
110 * Support added for NetBSD 2.0.
111 * Lots of code tidying.
112 * Python bindings now exist in a separate package:
113 http://www.i-scream.org/pystatgrab/
114
115 libstatgrab 0.9 (10 March 2004)
116
117 * Added network interface information:
118 speed, duplex, up/down.
119 * Added more statistics on network interfaces:
120 i/o packets, i/o errors, and collisions.
121 * Added support for OpenBSD 3.3.
122 * Added support for DragonFly BSD 1.0.
123 * No longer need elevated privileges on most platforms:
124 FreeBSD 5, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
125 (see PLATFORMS file for details on which OS's need elevated privileges)
126 * Minor changes to the return types of the python bindings functions.
127
128 * PLEASE NOTE: this will break binary (only) compatibility.
129
130 libstatgrab 0.8.2 (11 February 2004)
131
132 * Fixes to add support for Solaris 6.
133 * Python bindings available in extras directory.
134 * Some tidying up of code.
135
136 libstatgrab 0.8.1 (21 January 2004)
137
138 * The library part of libstatgrab is now released under the LGPL.
139 (the tools are still released under the GPL)
140 * File descriptor leak fixed on Linux.
141 * strlcpy/strlcat functions added for Solaris 7 to fix compile.
142 * statgrab_init error behaviour fixed (primarly for Solaris 7).
143 * Some incorrect #includes moved.
144 * Significant speed increases to the Solaris disk mapping code in
145 statgrab_init, which improves startup time.
146 * Minor fix for saidar's -d flag and negative numbers.
147
148 libstatgrab 0.8 (06 January 2004)
149
150 * Support for Linux 2.6.
151 * Support for Cygwin.
152 * Use cNtNdNsN names on Solaris instead of sdN.
153 * Fixes and optimisations to saidar.
154 * Fixes to the --disable-saidar and --disable-statgrab configure flags.
155 * New function to drop elevated privileges some OS's require.
156 (after using the init function)
157
158 libstatgrab 0.7 (22 October 2003)
159
160 * Support for NetBSD 1.6.x.
161 * FreeBSD code optimised.
162 * Initialise function allows programs to drop extra privileges (on *BSD).
163 * saidar now works even if it can't get all statistics.
164 * List of known file systems increased on Linux and *BSD.
165 * Minor bug fixes.
166 * Tested (and working) on Solaris 9 x86, Linux 2.2 on alpha, and
167 Linux 2.4 on amd64.
168
169 libstatgrab 0.6.1 (18 October 2003)
170
171 * Support for FreeBSD 5.1/sparc64.
172 * Bugs fixed in FreeBSD memory statistics.
173 * saidar displays disk percentages more "correctly".
174 * Bug fixed displaying hostname in saidar.
175 * statgrab now handles unusual /dev layouts more gracefully.
176 * Minor packaging changes.
177
178 libstatgrab 0.6 (09 October 2003)
179
180 * saidar, a curses-based tool, has been added to give an overview of
181 the current system statistics.
182 * Added support for FreeBSD 5.1.
183 * Documentation is now available in manpages.
184 * Fixed major bug in the FreeBSD diskio stats.
185 * Added a .pc file for pkgconfig.
186
187 libstatgrab 0.5.1 (09 September 2003)
188
189 * Network stats wrap-around bug fixed on Linux and FreeBSD
190 * Linux now reads disk information from /proc/partitions if available.
191 This results in it getting data for all the disks.
192 * An additional tool, statgrab, has been added to allow external programs
193 to easily parse statistics generated by libstatgrab.
194 * Scripts to generate MRTG (www.mrtg.org) configs with statgrab have
195 been added. This allows graphs to be generated from system stats.
196
197 libstatgrab 0.5 (25 August 2003)
198
199 * Fixed a bug with process stats on FreeBSD.
200 * Added documentation in 'docs' directory.
201 * Added examples in 'examples' directory.
202
203 libstatgrab 0.4 (09 April 2003)
204
205 * Support added for FreeBSD 4.x (not tested on 5.x).
206
207 libstatgrab 0.3.4 (31 March 2003)
208
209 * Fixed memory leak, and file descriptor leak on linux.
210
211 libstatgrab 0.3.3 (22 March 2003)
212
213 * Network statistics wraparound code was broken on interfaces that
214 transfered no data - typically second interfaces that weren't
215 connected.
216
217 libstatgrab 0.3.2 (21 March 2003)
218
219 * Network statistics wraparound fix.
220
221 libstatgrab 0.3.1 (12 March 2003)
222
223 * Fixed network statistics on Solaris 7 or below.
224 * Disk IO statistics are correctly reported.
225
226 libstatgrab 0.3 (10 March 2003)
227
228 * Support added for Linux with a 2.4 kernel.
229
230 libstatgrab 0.2 (03 March 2003)
231
232 * Initial working release for Solaris (tested on 7, 8, and 9).
233